Re: Other formats in pset like markdown, rst, mediawiki

From: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
To: Jan Michálek <godzilalalala(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Other formats in pset like markdown, rst, mediawiki
Date: 2017-04-19 07:18:01
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.20.1704191605580.16476@lancre
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>> I still do not understand "why" this variant vs CommonMark or whatever
>> other version.
>
> Because of simply implementation and readability (looks similar to aligned
> format) and it is comfortable to edit generated table (changing values,
> aligning columns etc.).

Hmmm. Why not.

> Sorry, maybe I`m not understanding, there is problems with characters like
> pipe in cells, pipe should be escaped. What other special markdown
> characters? Escaping html code in cells?

Markdown include characters/sequences which are interpreted as markers:
_Italic_, **Bold**, *** => horizontal rules, > block quote... `inline
code`... If they are interpreted within a table cell then probably they
should be escaped somehow.

>>> Main of the functionality is used from aligned format. I tested returned
>>> tables in retext and it works. If i have another character than standart
>>> pipe, it shouldn`t work.
>>>
>> Sure. ISTM that you are currently using U+2502 instead of pipe, hence my
>> point.
>
> Could you send me example where?

I already did in the first mail with the example output copy pasted from
psql. Some characters are pipe and others are BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL
characters.

Maybe this is because I have in my ~/.psqlrc:

\pset linestyle unicode
\pset border 2

in which case your reuse of the the aligned stuff should take care of the
border setting to avoid using special UTF8 characters..

--
Fabien.

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